The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023) s02e05 Episode Script

Vouloir, C'est Pouvoir

1
[SOBS]
[ITEM CLATTERS]

You know, I got somebody
ready to take us back home.
It's a pilot with a plane back in Paris.
Bonne chance. It means good luck.
My friends
[SPEAKING FRENCH] Pouvoir des Vivants.
I met a guy. His name is Codron.
DARYL: He helped you find me?
Tell Dixon I did it for the boy.
Just make sure he's okay, that he knows

CAROL: Try it again.

Daryl? Go ahead and rev it.

Daryl. Huh?
Try it one more time.
[ENGINE SPUTTERING]
You're right. It's fried.

Are you okay?
Yeah.

Guess we're walking.



[GUNFIRE IN DISTANCE]



[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS IN DISTANCE]

MAN: God. My God.

FALLOU: Huh?
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

[SIGHS]
Losang?
[SIGHS]



What are you gonna
tell him about Isabelle?
Well, the truth, I guess.
Mm.
Least he's coming back with us.
I got that to say to him.
Yeah.
Hey, you're friend ?
- Ash.
- Ash, right.
Me bringing the kid back,
that wasn't part of the plan.
Is he gonna be alright with that?
Sure. Once I explain things to him.
You know, it's probably
better if I talk to Ash alone.
He's not gonna be that
comfortable with you at first.
He knows you were looking
for me, though, right?
Well, it's just that he's
lived alone all this time.
It's his first time out in the world.
He's nervous.
Don't want him to overreact.
Look around. This place ain't safe.
No, really. You know, I got it.
You don't need to take any dumb risks.
How do you think I found you?
Nah, I'm coming.
Okay, look. Look.
What I said to him
to persuade him to
do this whole thing
I embellished some facts.
You lied?
You could say.
You, uh, tell him I'm
your brother or something?
No, nothing like that.
Nah, I'm coming. You do all the talking.
Oh, at least let me get in front.
Ow.

Jesus.
Looks like Ash has been busy.

Ash, it's Carol.

Wait, wait.

Ash?

Are you here?

Ash?
[SIGHS]
Hey. Over here.
[GROWLS]
Is that guy still alive?
Where's Ash?
The man that was here where is he?

The man. What happened to the man?

He never come back.

What were you doing here?

We came to find a plane.

Je vous en supplie. Tuez-moi.

CAROL: What's he saying?

Please.
You kill me?

You kill me, please.

I got this.

[GRUNTS]

[WALKER GROWLING]

[GROWLING STOPS]

- [WALKERS GROWLING]
- [PANTING]


Yes.
- [ENGINE SPUTTERING]
- [GRUNTS]
[GROWLING]

[WALKERS GROWLING]

[GRUNTS]
[HIGH-PITCHED TONE]

[GROWLING CONTINUES]




CAROL: Do you think these
folks are gonna be able
- to help us find Ash?
- Yeah, I hope so.
He's not like us.
He's gentle.
What, you got the hots
for him or something?
No. I like him, though.
He's a really good person.
Not easy to find these days.
What was that lie you told him?
What was that about?
Told him I was looking for
my daughter.
Sophia?
I don't even know where it came from.
I was just searching for a reason,
thinking about you,
everything we'd been through,
all the loss, and I just

Maybe I do know where it came from.
NADINE: Bonjour.
- Hi, Nadine.
- Daryl, you made it.
Yeah.




- Daryl.
- There he is.

You're back.
[SIGHS]
- You okay?
- Yeah.
Carol from the Commonwealth, right?
That's right.

I prayed for you and Judith and RJ
and Ezekiel.
I've heard a lot about you.

Where is Issa?

[SIGHS] I gotta talk
to you for a second.

We heard Genet was dead,
but we were unsure it was true.
It's true.

Maybe now it will be safer here.
I hope so for all of you.
How about this friend
you're looking for?
What do you know?

He must be in trouble.


She's with my mother now.

Yeah.

She died protecting you.
That's what she wanted.

Like Sylvie

and the sisters.
That's right.

It's a terrible thing to think of

the world without them in it.

Yeah.

Yeah, it is.

Issa loved you.

She told me.



You know, Isabelle and I were talking
about the three of us
going back to America.
We could still do that together.

Carol has a friend who has a plane.

We just got to find him,
and then we'll do that.
Alright?
Do you think that someday
this will all be over?
And we'll be able to do normal things?
We'll be able to go to
school with other kids.

See a movie.
Ride a bike.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
There was we have
something like that back home.
Hell, I'll teach you how to ride a bike.


I don't think so.

I should stay here,
and you should go back where you belong.

That's what you always wanted.
I was wrong.
That's not what I want.

Hell, it's not what you want, either.

It's different now.
Why? Why is it different?
Because I feel at peace here.

Hm.

Don't be sad.
I'm happy here.
And you'll be happy, too,
when you go back home.

You sure?

Good night.

[PEOPLE CONVERSING IN FRENCH]


[MAN SINGING IN FRENCH]


[CHILDREN LAUGHING]





Ready to go?

Where are we going?
To look for Ash.
Alright.
Wanna talk about it?
No.
You mind if I do?
I know you really wanted him to come,
and I know he's not
and that sucks.
And I'm really sorry.
I let him down.
I can't really blame him.
So, what, he's getting back at you?
I probably deserve it.
I mean, I'm here, she's not. Right?
And now you're replaying
every decision
thinking of everything you
could have done differently.
It's a pretty long list.
You and me both.
The past just become one
big, giant hole of what-ifs.
Why us?
You and me?
Why did we get to go so far?
Luck? Hm.
Bad luck, maybe.
It's kind of hard to
tell the difference.
Carol? Hey.
It won't be easy
tracking down your friend.
A stranger out there
alone for that long
what are the chances you find him alive?
I found him alive.
What are the chances of that?
Come on, man. You know where to look.
There's still only one
place to go for information.
Yeah, I'm not too popular there.
What place is that?
["LADY MARMALADE" PLAYS]

Welcome to the Demimonde.

Hey, sister, go sister ♪
Soul sister, flow sister ♪
Hey sister, go sister,
soul sister, go sister ♪
WOMAN: He met Marmalade
down in old New Orleans ♪
[SPEAKING FRENCH]
Et toi, mon beau. Bienvenue.
Bonjour.
Tu veux que je te fasse kiffer ?
You wanna give it a go? ♪
No, I'm good. Thank you.
Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, da-da ♪
Et toi ?
Mm?
Gitchie, gitchie, ya-ya, here ♪
Mocha Chocolata, ya-ya ♪
Dépaysant ? Hm?
Yeah.
[MEN GRUNTING]

Come on.


Genet's men?

I'm guessing not anymore.

That's her right there.

Creole Lady Marmala-a-a-a-de ♪
Daryl Dixon.
I heard you were dead.
Not yet.

Make yourself at home.
Alright.

Hey.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

DARYL: Love what you've
done with the place.
Loosened up the rules.

Rules are so British.
People wanna be free.
Especially French people.

Quinn never understood that.
I mean, some of his men did.

Others needed a little convincing.
Hey. Good job.
Shh.
[LAUGHS]

You're very popular with the Guerriers.
When the queen dies, the
bees scatter with the honey.
And who are you, exactly?
She's a friend of mine.
Oh.
Another friend.

What happened to the last one? The nun.

She died.

And the boy?
Somewhere safe where no one
can find him or hurt him.
I did what I had to
with Quinn.

I'm sorry for any, um,
what do you call it?
Collateral damage.
Well, you can make it up to us.

We're looking for someone.
Another American.

Whoa, you people are everywhere.
How exactly did you come to France?

- Does it matter?
- Not to me,
but you show up around the same time
an airplane landed West of the city.
Be careful.
Some people will do
anything for a way out.

Yeah, we'll keep that in mind.
In fact, I hired a few
men to track it down.

They never came back.

What about our friend?

I'll put out the word.

What is it?

[PEOPLE CONVERSING IN FRENCH, LAUGHTER]

This red one. Where did it come from?
Juliette.
Maison Mère.
It's not what it used to be.
Nothing left, from what I hear.

We're gonna need a car.
And weapons.


Mmm.
Uh
No.








[SPEAKS FRENCH]
Reste pas là. Reste pas là.

Put your guns down. Put your guns down.



[BRAKES SQUEAK]

[ENGINE SHUTS OFF]


No guards.
Yeah, I noticed.

You okay?

Just thrilled to be back.
Yeah.
Yeah, good times.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
Don't be alarmed by the Guerriers.
They're brothers and
sisters united in our cause.
But the message will
be lost without the boy.
Laurent is the chosen one.
He needs to be protected.
We're hoping he's here.
We sent Laurent to you, at the Nest.
He was taken from us.
Lured away by the American.
Then you must help find him.
Make preparations.
We go out at once.
We split into groups to
cover more of the city.
Come on, let's go.

[SPEAKS FRENCH] Vas-y.



[SPEAKING FRENCH]
Baptiste, tu viens avec moi.
Toi tu vas là-bas.
Vous deux, par ici. Tu les suis.


[WALKERS GROWLING IN DISTANCE]

I'll check in here.


[SNARLING]
Get off that.


DARYL: It's in America.
I went out looking for something,
and all I found was trouble.
If I don't make it back,
I want them to know I tried.
Hell, I'm still trying.
- Hey.
- [TAPE RECORDER CLICKS]
I found something.

Okay.

[WALKERS GROWLING]
You see him?
No.
No, he's not here.
Maybe he was never here.
Maybe we're in the wrong place.

Come here. Look at that.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

There's got to be
something alive in there.
Come on.
[GROWLING CONTINUES]

[GRUNTS]


[GRUNTS]


[GRUNTS]

Dixon is faithful only to himself.
He wants to go home.
Wants to go back to his world.
If he takes the boy,
what becomes of ours?
FALLOU: Daryl wants to save Laurent.
You want to make him a martyr.
[SCOFFS] Look.

Look at how we have to
hide from the hungry ones.
On the rooftops. In the cellars.

Our children, all they've known is fear.
[WALKERS GROWLING]

You ready?
[WHISTLES]
And what of their children?
- The living cower.
- [GUN COCKS]

The numbers dwindling,
the dead flourishing,
the natural order of things
twisted and perverted
beyond comprehension.
Some people believe the world has ended,
that God is also dead.

That is why we must find him.

The world must see
that God is still here
and the boy is proof.
That's what faith is.
If you need proof,
you've already lost it.


[GROWLING CONTINUES]

[GRUNTS]

[SIGHS]
Ash. Ash.

You made it.
You're gonna be okay.
[GROWLING CONTINUES]
Doesn't look okay.
Who's that?
Don't worry. We're gonna
get you out of here.
I'm gonna get you out.

[GROWLING CONTINUES]

[WALKERS GROWLING]
It's probably just a concussion.
Dehydrated. I don't
think anything's broken.
[GROWLING CONTINUES]
How many rounds you got left?

One.
We gotta get back to the car.
[GRUNTING]

[GROANS]
Got any ideas?
Not any good ones.
How about battery? We
got any battery left?

[CHIMING] Yeah, but
this thing's not moving.
We just need to crack a window.

[GROWLING CONTINUES]

[GRUNTS, SNARLING]


[GRUNTS]




[WALKERS GROWLING]
[GROWLING STOPS]
[SNARLING IN DISTANCE]
[WALKERS SNARLING]

[SNARLING STOPS]
[PANTING]

[GROANS]
Where's Sophia?

Let's get you out of here.

[WALKERS GROWLING]



DARYL: Come on.

Finish this water. I'll
get you some more, okay?
I don't know about this thing.
You really think this
is gonna get us home?
Got us here.
How much fuel we need?
Added to what we have,
50 gallons should get
us all the way back home.
Alright.
Can I talk to you for a second?
Mm?
You know, you should tell him the truth.
I just want him to get healthy
before I break his heart.
Why her, though?
Why don't you just lie
about something else?
Had to be convincing.
I made up something
that I wished was true.
And
he lost his son.
Ah.
Got it.
Why don't you get him ready to fly?
I'll go find some fuel. Alright?
- Yeah?
- Yeah.

[SINGING IN FRENCH]

Talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-generation ♪
[SINGING IN FRENCH]

Hey.
Can I talk to you for a minute?
Back so soon?

Come on.
I've got a present for you.

Hey.
You alright? Yeah.

What are you doing here?
We came here looking for you.
Losang came to the camp.
And now Genet is dead,
he has some of her people behind him.
So I brought him here.

Thank you.
I owe you one.

What about everyone else?
- They alright?
- Yeah.
Losang is only interested in one thing.

I need your help.
Again?

People are gonna talk.

Come on.
Smile.
I can get you the fuel that you need.

Thanks. I appreciate it.
I'm not doing it for you.
Max, load him up with as
much ethanol as he can carry.
Not sure we have enough
to just give it away.
I'm sorry.
It sounded like you were
trying to express an opinion.

Didn't think so.

Faster.
Theo?

So you'll take the boy with you?

That's the plan.
There'll be another Genet before long.

Laurent will be safer in America.

At least you guys
don't fall for fascists.

Student becomes the master.
I take it she's not coming.

She didn't make it?
No.
There was nothing you could
do, halfway across the world.
- If you wanna talk about it
- No.

I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
For what?

All of it.

It's so easy for us to blame ourselves.

During the days that I
spent waiting for you,
I just got to thinking
how this trip

helped me.
It helped you?

Get past the guilt I've
been carrying about Avi.

Coming here with you just
forced me to overcome it.

Live again.

You did that for me, Carol.

[BREATHES SHARPLY]

I'm only sorry it didn't
end better for you.


[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

[LAUGHTER]

You should come with us.
I wanna stay at the camp.
It's not safe at the camp.
Fallou will find a new place.
And I have friends there.
You can find friends anywhere.
You can find friends where we're going.
There's kids there.
Carol's there. I'm there.
I can't come with you.
- Why?
- I don't want to.
- Explain it to me.
- I just can't.
- Why not?
- Because I don't want you to die.

The sisters, Isabelle, Sylvie
they're all gone because of me.

Everybody. Everybody I love dies.
That's not true.
It has nothing to do with you.
- [CLATTERING, INDISTINCT TALKING]
- ANNA: Williams. Williams.

Let's go, everyone.


Come with me. Quickly.
Come on, grab your stuff.
Will you distract them for me? Okay?


- This way.
- Come on. Go.



You must be the hope guy.
Where are they?
Poof. In thin air.
- Is that so?
- Uh-huh.
You believe in miracles, right?


Losang.
[SPEAKS FRENCH]




LOSANG: Dixon?
- LAURENT: Monsieur Codron ?
- DARYL: Yeah.
Alright.

Alright, which way now?
They're coming.
[MEN SPEAKING FRENCH IN DISTANCE]
Alright, let's split up. Come on.




I need you to do
something for me, alright?

Come on, get in.

You stay here till I come
back and get you, okay?
What if you don't come back?
Hey.
When has that ever happened?

You turn it off.

We're gonna get through this, okay?


[MAN SHOUTS IN FRENCH]
[GUNSHOT]
[MEN SPEAKING FRENCH]





[MAN GRUNTING]



[SPEAKS FRENCH]


[GUNSHOT, MAN GRUNTS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]


[GUNSHOT, MAN GRUNTS]


[MAN GRUNTING]
[MAN GAGGING]















Damn.



[GRUNTING]



Come on. Let's go.
Come on.

This way.



I don't think you can
get any cleaner than that.
Should get some more rest.
Eh, little activity will be good for me.
After being stuck in a car for two days.
I really appreciate you
making this trip for me.
I'm glad you feel like it was worth it.
The thing is, uh
I lied.
I didn't come here looking for Sophia.
I came here to look for Daryl.

What are you saying?

Sophia died 12 years ago.
No, you you said that
No, I know I know what I said.
It's not like that.
What's it like, then?
It's like she never went away.
It's like I never let her go
because I never forgave myself.
I think you get that.
I know that we share that feeling.
And, lately, that
feeling has gotten worse.
And when I met you
I told you what I needed
to to convince you to help me.
- So that makes it alright?
- It's not an excuse.
- Oh.
- Just an explanation.
I really hope your
therapy is going well.

I know how terrible this is.
It's not just that you lied.
It's It's the lie itself.
I mean, using your dead daughter
to manipulate me.
What kind of person does that?
A really desperate one. I'm sorry.
I believed in you. Don't you get that?
I gave up everything.
I gave up my world.
I gave up my home, my memory of Avi.
But you said before that
Oh, you think the end
justified the means?
No. Whatever was happening between us,
every moment of comfort or bonding
or whatever the fuck you wanna call it,
it was Goddamn fucking meaningless.
- The pain was real. The grief, it
- Oh, come on.
It was all based in a lie.
Your lie to get my fucking plane!
God damn it!

Ash.
Don't.

[WRENCH CLANKS]

Thank you.
You are always welcome in the Demimonde.
Okay?
[CLICKS TONGUE]
[ENGINE IDLING]
- Alright. You ready?
- To go where?
To America.
I told you, I'm not going.
Look, I know what you said,
but I think you got it wrong.
You blame yourself.
I get it. That's what kids do.
But you got to let go of
the things that scare you.
Isabelle wanted you to
go. I want you to go.

But you got to make up your own mind.

What's it gonna be?

Okay.
Good. Go get your shit.
Let's go.

Looks like the future.
Yeah, sure does.

There it is.

You ever see one of these before?
No only in books.
Up in the clouds, we'll be close to Issa
and Sylvie and my mother.
Yeah. They'll watch over us.

How'd it go?
Not so good.

You feeling any better?

- Who is this?
- That's Laurent.
This is Ash. This is his plane.
Hey. Pleased to make your acquaintance.
I've never flown in a plane before.
Ash is gonna be the one flying us home.
Yeah, well, one small hitch.
This plane will never get off
the ground with all four of us.

So, Paris, we have a problem.

I help you find the
boy, I get the plane.
I'm gonna get you home,
even if it means me staying behind.
We got to go right now.
Aah!

Come on.
[GUNSHOT]

We keep going. That's what we do.
CAROL: Daryl, are you okay?
Yeah. I guess we're walking.

ZABEL: Episode five is called
"Vouloir, C'est Pouvoir."
It means "where there's
a will, there's a way,"
and it's a little bit
of a play on "pouvoir"
because "pouvoir des vivants,"
which means "power of the living,"
is the name of the movement
that Genet has been leading for years.
And also it plays just
to Daryl's relentless need
to find and get to Laurent.
Especially with Isabelle gone.
Nothing else matters
to Daryl but the boy.
LEVI: Codron decided
to go to the roof camp.
First of all, he wants to help them.
He had time to think in jail,
you know, and he had time
to understand that he
was on the wrong side.
ZABEL: Codron started
to sort of make a switch
at the end of season one,
and now what we see is that he's a man
who's really reckoning with himself,
and he has that beautiful
scene with Laurent
where he gets into that whole
explanation about his brother
and why he was angry at Daryl.
LEVI: There is a very
beautiful connection
between Codron and Laurent.
SCIGLIUZZI: Laurent, he
sees the good in Codron.
He has faith in him 'cause, you
know, everyone can be redeemed.
LEVI: This child is special.
And Codron felt that at
the end of the first season.
And now they meet again,
and he's more than grateful
about what this child did.
He saved his life,
but more than this, he
saved his direction of life.
So he opened his heart in a way.
[GROWLING]

MAN: Hi. Okay. Hi.
So we're doing Ash
running from the zombies,
and then he gets in
and now one gets to the
door and tries to bash it.
Two more zombies.
And that's when he gets his head hit.
DARYL: Come here. Look at that.
There's got to be
something alive in there.
Come on.
DAYAL: Being surrounded
by all of those zombies
in that SUV over there
felt very claustrophobic.
And also kind of reminded me
of, um, getting a car wash.
The choreography of that
scene was pretty amazing.
NICOTERO: Today we have 80 walkers.
There's traditional walkers,
the rotted crazy ones,
and then we have a lot
of freshly turned ones
because the sequence
requires a lot of people
that have died recently.
So there's not a ton of prosthetics.
It's more pale paint job and
some veins and bite wounds
and splattered blood and stuff.
[SPEAKS FRENCH] Okay, next shot.
Today is going to be very challenging
because we have a lot
of special effects.
We're literally tearing zombies apart,
having the car covered in blood
as Daryl and Carol effect their escape.
Got any ideas?
Not any good ones.
NICOTERO: The tranquilizer
darts are filled
with this concoction.
Daryl knows what the result
of an injection with this material is.
So he's creating little
Tasmanian Devil zombies
so that these two particular
walkers can diminish the threat
by tearing any unsuspecting walker
in its vicinity from limb to limb.
MCBRIDE: I like the
suspense and the quiet calm.
You're just wondering, waiting
for something to strike,
and you don't know where
it's going to happen.
MAN: One!
Two.
Three!
[GROWLING]
My favorite moment from that day
was how much fun we had
with the amount of dead
bodies on the ground.
She's not in the scene, Norman. [LAUGHS]
I mean, there was, like,
hundreds of dead bodies,
and it was super sticky, super bloody.
[LAUGHING]
And being inside this
car with the windows
and smashing up against the windows
and everyone's panicking. I
was like, "Oh. You're back."
MCBRIDE: You see Daryl and Carol
working together again in tandem,
which is something that I missed,
and I was really, really
happy to shoot that.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
LOSANG: Dixon is
faithful only to himself.
MAN: Daryl wants to save Laurent.
You want to make him a martyr.
The Losang/Daryl opposition,
which we see playing out
starting in episode one, even,
is sort of these two father figures
that represent different ways of being
and different ways of seeing the world.
Daryl's influence on the
boy is not good for the Nest,
and it's not good for what they believe
and what they want the boy to become.
And so Daryl's influence on
Laurent is dangerous to them.

DE LA FUENTE: I'm not a
martial arts practitioner.
And so, you know, I had done
all this preparation on my own
about other aspects, things from
the text and everything else.
But the show got me in touch
with a man named Leo Tamaki,
who is a very accomplished,
wonderful martial
artist and aikido master,
and then working with
Seb, the stunt coordinator,
and all the people in
his great department
and the amazing stunt double I have.
To their credit, they
were like, you know,
"We want you to do as
much of this as you can.
We think you can do it."
And so, you know,
I had this great opportunity
to do this huge fight.
Shooting the final
fight scene with Norman.
One of the unusual things about it
is we're shooting so out of order.
So you have to prepare yourself to die
months before you're
going to finish the job.

There's an inevitability
to Losang's end,
and it's tragic because he
really does love the boy.
He really does have faith
that there is a higher
purpose to humanity,
and that it's humanity's
job to follow that path.
He just, in the end,
took the wrong path.




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